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I got out like two weeks ago and on the very same day I got the offer from the corporate section, my immediate boss quit via text, so the tiny department was down at that point like 2/5 of its labor and the entirety of its management staff. Never before have I identified with  so strongly.
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I had this happen once when I was working part time at a convenience store. I asked for a Sunday off four months in advance. The manager said to keep reminding her the closer the date came. I did. She scheduled me anyway. I told her I wasn't going to show up. I ended up trading with someone else. I finally quit by not showing up on a busy Friday afternoon and she had to work my shift - 4pm to midnight - after she had been there since 8am that morning.
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Retail is a very good newspaper comic.
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"Retail" is "Dilbert" transposed as exactly as possible to a mall setting, and "Dilbert" is bad.
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I'll disagree, not least because Norm Feuti isn't a huge, gaping, flapping rear end in a top hat
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:"Retail" is "Dilbert" transposed as exactly as possible to a mall setting, and "Dilbert" is bad. nah At worst Retail is like early Dilbert when it was decent, not modern insufferable Dilbert.
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sweeperbravo posted:I'll disagree, not least because Norm Feuti isn't a huge, gaping, flapping rear end in a top hat I didn't say Feuti was Adams, I said Retail was Dilbert. The Bloop posted:nah Bosses and clients are so dumb and bad! Why can't they just let us do our jobs?? We're hard working underdogs! The work environment strips us of basic human dignity, but we fight back in tiny ways! It may be ineffectual against the giant corporate machine, but it keeps us from going insane! at the mall
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It's weird to me (a former retail worker) that people read the manipulative comic strip, say to themselves "Yeah this happened to me! I remember how mad I was! In fact, I'm angry now, all over again!!" and think that means that the comic is a good thing to include in their lives.
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I don't think it's a good thing! Hell, the ostensible protagonists are the people who make the job even worse than it has to be, and also because Gil was Feuti's better strip.
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I don't mind Retail because it usually has sense enough to punch upward. It's a nice counterweight to smug garbage like Dustin, Dilbert, and the duck comic we don't post here.
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The one thing that I actually like about Retail and find moderately insightful is that the main cast only sticks around because they're effectively trapped in the job. Especially in comparison to Dilbert, where the main cast doesn't change because they're trapped in an eternal business hell created by the mind of an abandoned and starving Garfield.Kid Fenris posted:I don't mind Retail because it usually has sense enough to punch upward. It's a nice counterweight to smug garbage like Dustin, Dilbert, and the duck comic we don't post here. OK, the two thing I like about Retail is that Feuti doesn't make strawman characters based on his critics so he can depict them as shrill idiot neckbeards, because if he did I'd be so toast
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I see what you did there.Shugojin posted:I don't think it's a good thing!
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Tiggum posted:I see what you did there. Retail has gotten better since then, though Gil is still missed.
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The Bloop posted:nah I think it was when he stopped wearing a tie that he changed from lovable loser to angry jerk.
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Say Nothing posted:I think it was when he stopped wearing a tie that he changed from lovable loser to angry jerk. How long has it been since that change? When it first happened I thought it was going to be a gag for like a week but it never went away.
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Luann I'll tell you. No. No, he does not. Not now. Not. Ever. Sally Forth  The Amazing Spider-Man  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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Wow, Luann totally just went from "WELP LES BOUGHT US ALL DINNER HURRAY!!" to "HEY LES IS COMING OVER FOR DINNER" with nothing in between.
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The Classic Dinette Set wastes not, wants not. Working Daze is the lowest form of humor.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix raises more questions than it answers. 
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Manuel Calavera posted:
It's Melanoma, Dolly. Welcome to the Funkyverse.
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Endless Mike posted:Wow, Luann totally just went from "WELP LES BOUGHT US ALL DINNER HURRAY!!" to "HEY LES IS COMING OVER FOR DINNER" with nothing in between. Maybe the writer got so much poo poo for how loving horrible his "good guys" were being, that he had to desperately jump into a "remember, he's the bad guy!" strip and it's just a coincidence that both happened to be about having dinner? Of course, his case would be helped if the momma's boy character wasn't being a total jerk right now.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Of course, his case would be helped if the momma's boy character wasn't being a total jerk right now.  Also, looking at the strip again, why the hell is Les's dad wearing a suit and tie to a cozy homecooked dinner? At least take the jacket off or something, jeez.
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If any of you have (perhaps significantly) more money than sense, Heritage Auctions has some rarities up. Original Far Side art and Original Calvin & Hobbes art. Only at $20,000 and $40,000, respectively! There's a whole lot of other old comic strip art in there, and some of it's relatively inexpensive.
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Mark Trail Meets Art That Will Never Fetch $20K+ Pearls Before Swine  The Phantom  Pooch Café 
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See below.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:The one thing that I actually like about Retail and find moderately insightful is that the main cast only sticks around because they're effectively trapped in the job. Especially in comparison to Dilbert, where the main cast doesn't change because they're trapped in an eternal business hell created by the mind of an abandoned and starving Garfield. On the other hand, people who haven't worked retail may learn about what a crushing nightmare it (and now other min or sub-min wage jobs) are. Between the unapologetically struggling divorced family in Gil just scraping by feeding their kid on hope, and Retail, I am pretty sure Feuti is currently at the loudest you could possibly advocate for socialism--or at least class consciousness--on the newspaper funny pages. Has nobody else read them this way?
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Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise It's been a few weeks, but the adventure continues!   Auto-sorting Imgur albums by filename is next to impossible.
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Is it still the same new artist that did the last arc?
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Mister Olympus posted:On the other hand, people who haven't worked retail may learn about what a crushing nightmare it (and now other min or sub-min wage jobs) are. I can follow your thought process (for example, Retail might be literally the only strip I can think of where any retail workers are portrayed as sympathetic) but that doesn't necessarily excuse the flaws in execution. Still, makes for a nice contrast with loving Dustin.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Retail has gotten better since then, though Gil is still missed. Writing as someone who used to hate Retail (and has never worked retail), the strip is definitely much better now than it was during my hiatus from the thread. One factor with that has to be that Feuti got rid of that guy with glasses everyone was always dunking on. The whole plot arc with literally everyone getting pissy at him for successfully negotiating a raise was the strip's low point and it's much better when Feuti is focusing on the real villain- corporate. For what it's worth I always thought Dilbert was kind of a jerk, which is why I never really get why people think the current version is significantly different than the nineties one. Aside from the advances in technology this whole thing with the legacy system seems like exactly the kind of sad purgatory that was always the foundation of the strip's jokes. Retail treads a much finer line because it's expecting us to distinguish between sympathetic and unsympathetic characters. Tracksuit   I'm assuming this is some sort of riff on The Defiant Ones. Mother From Another Country  I have no idea why she's calling it that considering that the Mother From Another Country is obviously not Canadian.
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Arlo and Janis Arlo and Janis Classic (Dec. 27, 1994)  Garfield Classic (Dec. 27, 1984) 
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Tiggum posted:I see what you did there. To be fair, out of the two comic strips Feuti does, why'd they have to cancel the one that didn't suck? And lmao at the guy who thinks Gil and Retail are advocating socialism
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Shugojin posted:I got out like two weeks ago and on the very same day I got the offer from the corporate section, my immediate boss quit via text, so the tiny department was down at that point like 2/5 of its labor and the entirety of its management staff. Never before have I identified with Yeah, scheduling fuckery is one of the most irritating parts of retail jobs. And my stories are relatively minor: - When I worked retail in high school, I had to keep telling my boss that, no, I couldn't work shifts in the morning on weekdays. Why? Because I was in freaking high school! I wasn't going to skip class for that poo poo job. - When the summer of my senior year ended, I tried to be nice and gave my boss four weeks notice. He turned around and said 'No, that's not enough time to find a replacement. I need you to work for at least another six weeks.' Considering that would overlap with my first week of college, I politely told him to gently caress off.
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